EGC Clambake for November 30, 2006
Here is the Bittorrent link and direct MP3 download for the EGC clambake for November 30, 2006.
This is the first of the Orycon episodes. I tell a little about my background with the convention; I play some Xmas Solstice music from the HP Lovecraft Historical Society; I play interviews with James Fiscus about the Endeavour [...]
Can We All Relax Now?
So a guy [Dave Gray] sent Apple money to license the term “podcast” and they said they had no interest in pursing the matter. So, can all the nonsense please stop? The worst offender lately has been Leo Laporte with his “netcast” silliness, which besides being a worse term has the ultimate sin in such [...]
Top New Chef
Poppy Brite’s husband Chris DeBarr has been named best new chef in New Orleans, which as Poppy notes is a little funny for a guy who has been cooling there for over a decade. I met Chris 14 years ago, on the first day I did Reality Break and liked him a lot. Congratulations, Chris!
Web 2.0 Meets My Local Library
They just opened a new public library branch in a nice new building a few blocks from my house. On the county library website they have a link to photos of the grand opening. If you check it out, it is actually a Flickr photoset. Nice to see my very most local library getting in [...]
Local Harvest
I heard about Local Harvest on the radio while we were doing our holiday driving. I’ve been very interested in doing more of our eating and cooking from locally grown produce. Considering that driving from here to my father-in-laws house requires driving by at least a dozen roadside stands selling fresh produce grown out back, [...]
Dixie Chicks and PBS
Last night An Evening with the Dixie Chicks was on PBS. I recorded it with the DVR and am watching it today. Bless you, little DVR. Pledge drive programming on PBS is watchable again! Bob help you if you don’t have one and have to sit through the mind-numbing faux populism of the on-air pledge [...]
Holiday Fatigue
We actually sat out the big meal on Thursday, choosing to have a smaller version of it with stuffing and cranberry sauce and rolls with ham in them. It was kind of refreshing not having the big deal. Friday we went to Augusta to see family and had a good time with my brother’s family. [...]
Panel Rundown: Computing Science Fiction
Place: Orycon 2006
Friday, 3 PM
Panelists: L. Pierce Ludke, Frank Hayes, David W. Goldman (Michael Ehart scheduled, couldn’t make it)
Moderator: Me
[Enough time has elapsed that my memory is starting to get shaky. Correct me if you catch a technical inaccuracy. I might correct some if this from listening to the recording of it later. ]
This was [...]
On The Road
A little family travel this weekend. We spent a chunk of the evening playing Hide and Seek, Candyland and Chutes and Ladders. That’s quite an evening for us.
Win a Daisy Open Source MP3 Player Kit
I was just looking at these players the other day, they seem like the perfect gift for the Uplifters/Makers in your life. Now PT at Make has announced a contest to win one, with the original announcement here. The thing to do is to write up a definition of the we-make-money-not-art blog. Hell, I’ll take [...]
Happy. Thanksgiving.
There was a definite mushiness component to my trip last week, seeing both my SF fan friends at Orycon as well as a lot of my friends from outside the tribe. Life is short, and I am trying to make a better effort to keep up with people. As Mary Schmich says (usually misattributed to [...]
Panel Rundown: Computer Viruses Then and Now
Place: Orycon 2006
Saturday, 5 PM
Panelists: Ben Yalow, Frank Hayes, Michael Ehart, Me
Moderator: Michael Pearce
So I’ll be honest about this panel. There was nothing wrong with it, it was a fine panel but it was a subject that I just ain’t that worked up about. I ended up hanging out with Michael the moderator at other [...]
Cited in the UK
Hey, this is quite cool. Last weekend at PodcastCon UK I was cited by name during this panel. If I’m not misremembering completely, that was the guy I talked to right before his BBC program was going online with their own podcast. It’s cool that he has remembered that statement all this time about the [...]
Tags: podcastconukWhat’s in Your Duffel Bag?
Since Dom asked, I’ll pull a Thomas Pynchon and write out some big honking lists of stuff to serve as characterization.
I had two bags at Orycon that were almost always with me. This might seem like a ridiculous amount of stuff for a weekend trip (and this doesn’t include the suitcase with clothes) but I [...]
Creative Commons Filk
Lazy web request from an exhausted and overwhelmed man. I hope to put together my first Orycon episode of the podcast in the next few days and I’d like to get some good filk and/or fannish music to go along with it. I would appreciate it if someone could please point me to a resource [...]
Back to Normal Life
I’ve been back home for almost 48 hours and I’m still a little tired and my voice still sounds like Tom Waits. Three days of solid talking, much of it in loud rooms, will do that to a person. I’m delighted I went to Orycon. I hadn’t really been planning on it until they invited [...]
Tags: oryconConway Votes
I’m proud of my little town. Yesterday was election day for the mayoral runoff. I came very near missing voting because I’ve been out of town and forgot about it. Luckily, it was before 7 PM when that realization hit. But, for a runoff election with only one contest, held two days before Thanksgiving, the [...]
Google Reader Problem
So I’m not sure what to do about problems I find in Google Reader. I looked for a bug report mechanism but didn’t find it yet. During the trip I found myself with very discreet snatches of time where I could read, and I started at the top. As a result, I built up these [...]
Panel Rundown: The Great Writers Blog
Place: Orycon 2006
Sunday, 12 PM
Panelists: Cory Doctorow, Jay Lake, Mary Robinette Kowal
Moderator: Me
Jay and Mary were both people that I met as we sat down at the table and people that I liked quite a bit. I had a chance to talk to both in hallways later on and carry on the conversation a little [...]
There and Back Again
So I did make it in (see other post for my minor blowup about it) and then made it in to work around the tail end of lunchtime. I was weary and I’ll admit I nodded off at least once, but in my delirium got something to work that I was wrestling with all the [...]
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